2017 internal grants recipients and learning communities announced

By

Trista Sobeck

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October 16, 2017

This year, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College leadership made two research funding streams available through a competitive internal grants program. The first provides grants to faculty investigating interdisciplinary education topics. The second, new this year, supports learning communities on topics that faculty members want to discuss, learn about and contribute to in collaboration with other scholars, students, and staff and community members.

Introducing Learning Communities

Learning Communities are awarded relatively modest funds to support informal groups or teams of faculty and graduate students to convene around a topic of shared interest.

The goal is to foster and support engagement and conversation around important topics throughout the school year. This goal is broad enough to recognize the multiple topics around which groups of people or communities of practice might work and learn together.

Here is a list of this year’s learning communities, their principal investigators and brief synopses of their membership and goals

Higher Education Internationalization

Goals: As part of a larger Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College internationalization strategy led by the Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education, to establish a community of international higher education scholar-practitioners and enhance ASU’s contributions to knowledge and practice.

Using Design Thinking to Link In-Service Teaching with University Faculty

Serving Youth in Juvenile Justice

Goals: Combine knowledge from the fields of social work, education, criminology and psychology to augment the understanding of youth involved in criminal behavior, and best practices for assisting the reentry of youth.

InSciEd Out

Goals: Bring together science and education researchers to work toward the understanding and betterment of how science is taught and disseminated to better prepare science students for a 21st Century workforce.